IPL 2024 Live Report - KKR look to finish fast after rebuild

13m ago

Just after Ishan Kishan crashes him for a big six over deep square leg, Mitchell Starc takes out his leg stump. MI are still doing ok at 25 for 1 after three overs, though.

Their innings so far:

Sudarshanan, our guy at the Wankhede for this match has this to add on the Kishan dismissal:

142.3kph, the Kishan dismissal delivery from Starc. The ball raced away to fine leg fence in no time after knocking over the leg stump.

Our experts analyse that KKR innings and MI bowling performance.

We'll be back after the innings break.

18 What Bumrah conceded in 3.5 overs, while taking three wickets.

Venkatesh Iyer was batting beautifully when Bumrah came in for his final spell. KKR will have felt they still had some tricks left.

But Bumrah was unplayable at the death yet again, giving away just two runs off his 18th over (in which he also took two wickets), before in the final over, he bowled two dot balls to start, gave away a couple of runs off the third delivery, then flattened Venkatesh Iyer's middle stump fifth ball, to end KKR's innings.

There is no better bowler in this league, and Bumrah has proved it yet again.

First, Venkatesh Iyer turns his back on Dre Russ and gets Russel run out.

Then, Ramandeep Singh is cramped for room as he plays the uppercut and is caught comfortably at deep third

Finally, Bumrah delivers a spectacular yorker to Mitchell Starc at the end of the 18th over, and bowls him off the inside edge.

The last two overs went like this:

17th

18th

Just two runs off that 18th over by Bumrah. As many wickets as runs. Incredible.

The partnership is finally broken. What a stand it was for KKR though:

83 Runs Manish Pandey and Venkatesh Iyer put on together, for the sixth wicket.

After Venkatesh Iyer hit his fifty, Pandey holes out against the bowling of Pandya. But still, it was an important rebuilding stand - one that went at a very good rate, and kept KKR in sight of a competitive score, despite the early wickets.

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Bumrah was brought on to bowl his second over (13th of the innings), and ended up conceding 12 - the first ball giving away a glanced four off the pads.

He wasn't happy though, as Sudarshanan - our guy at the ground - reports:

Throughout the over, Bumrah was unhappy and made it clear to the ump after the first-ball four. He felt it went brushing the pads but was given as runs to the batter. Even after the over, having a quiet word with the umpire while walking towards backward point to field

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Despite the loss of five wickets inside the first 37 balls of the innings, KKR continue to progress quickly, thanks mainly to Venkatesh Iyer, who has hit 43 off 29 by the end of the 12th over, with KKR still running at a run rate of close to nine.

If a few big hits come from Dre Russ later on, a total of 200 is not unthinkable.

1h ago

One of MI's big problems this season has been their modest middle-overs bowling, with Piyush Chawla proving neither penetrative nor economical. He's been both in his first over here though. First ball, he gets Rinku Singh to prod one back to him off the leading edge, for a simple caught-and-bowled. And he gave away just three runs in that over.

1h ago

9.5 KKR's powerplay strike tate despite losing four wickets

Hardik Pandya bowls Narine with his second delivery, but KKR have still gone at almost 10 in the powerplay.

2h ago

It's been a minute since Malinga played for Mumbai Indians. But Nuwan Thushara is doing a fantastic rendition of a Malinga early spell, getting that outswinger going early. He's got two more wickets in his second over. He had Angkrish Raghuvanshi bunt one to cover after deceiving him with a wide-ish delivery that held up outside off. And then he head Shreyas Iyer chipping one to mid on, again the result of that late away-swing.

MI have three KKR wickets in the first three overs. Will they go for the kill here?

2h ago

While CSK have a baby Malinga in Matheesha Pathirana, Malinga himself has been working with a baby Malinga of his own. And in the last two games, Nuwan Thushara has got that early outswing going, to test batters with the new ball. Phil Salt got him away for a boundary third ball, but that late swing got him in the end - a leading edge flying away high behind point as Salt aimed a shot over over midwicket.

Naman Dhir and Tilak Varma collided as they went for that catch, but thankfully for MI, Tilak - going back from point - held on.

More from Sudarshanan:

Bumrah had his hands on head seeing Tilak and Dhir on collision course. He was at short third.

Thushara concedes a six last ball, but still a decent over.

2h ago

Our guy at the Wankhede - S Sudarshanan - has this report:

Earlier, on the field, Rohit Sharma was the only one having a net facing Shams Mulani and a throwdown guy. The other MI and KKR players were yet to arrive at that stage. He was practising a fair few inside-out shots and the sweeps and reverse sweeps.

He's not in the XI as MI field first though. Likely to come in as an Impact Player when they start their chase, you'd think.

Here's some more from Sudarshanan:

The crowd is slowly filling up but it is not full house yet. Malinga and Chameera were seen exchanging a warm hug and a small chat a few minutes after toss.

Good to see some Lankan love at the Wankhede. Chameera being there is good news for KKR, it means he is back from Colombo after being forced to fly there to clear some US visa hurdles for the T20 World Cup.

Sunil Narine's move back to the top order this season has been magic for KKR. He's scored 372 runs at a strike rate of 182, while he's also taken 11 wickets with an economy rate of 6.82.

According to ESPNcricinfo's smart stats, Narine is the second most impactful bowler this season (behind Jasprit Bumrah), and the 12th most impactful batter. No surprises that he's this season's MVP so far.

2h ago

Our experts look forward to this clash here:

3 Number of matches Mumbai Indians have won, out of 10 so far this season

Folks, welcome to this IPL clash at the Wankhede between the struggling Mumbai Indians, and Kolkata Knight Riders, who have flown up to second on the IPL table.

MI are desperate for a win here at home, after a couple of rough matches in Delhi and Lucknow. In fact they have to win EVERY match from now to have a chance of making the playoffs.

KKR are looking to embed themselves further at the top end of that table.